[Washington? 1885?]. 8vo, pp. 15; stitching; a good tight copy. Reprint of an address given by Adams to the President and members of the Alumni Association of the University; first printed in The Chronicle. More

Signed by Adams

Washington, [D.C.]: [press of J.H. Furst Co., Baltimore], 1910. First edition, signed by Henry Adams at the end of the introductory letter; 12mo, pp. vi, 214, [2]; original green cloth, spine a bit sunned and with a small snag in the cloth (not effecting any lettering), otherwise very good. "In... More

Brewster, MA: Forty-One Doors, ca. 1950s. Bifolium, 4to; black and white illustrations, text on pp. [1-3] only; fine. Advertisement for a nine-week summer school held at the Aikens's Cape Cod farmhouse Forty-One Doors. Offered rate of $375, inclusive, for board, resident, and tuition. The Aikens had also run a similar... More

Burlington, N.J. printed by John S. Meehan, 1815. First edition, 12mo, 16 & unpaginated lexicon in double column, a nice copy in full orig. sheep, wavy blindstamped fillets on spine. In the advertisement on the verso of the title, the author hopes for the need of an unabridged version of... More

Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University, [c1959]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 495; illustrations in text throughout; a fine copy in the dustjacket with small tear at upper edge of back panel and some rubbing. More

London: printed for T. Davis and J. Dodsley, n.d., [1767]. First edition, second issue, 4to, pp. [2], 4, [4], xvi, 395; recent brown calf-backed marbled boards; very good and sound. John Ryland's copy, with his dated (1768) signature on the title page, and with a one-and-a-quarter page quarto manuscript account... More

London: Benj. Tooke, 1711. 8vo, pp. [12], xiii, [1], 212, [2], 40, [4] ads; 1 full-page engraved illustration; removed from binding; a very good copy. See Printing and the Mind of Man, 90: "In 1553 [Ascham] began the work which has made him famous, The Scholemaster. The book was occasioned... More

Philadelphia: [Philadelphia Inquirer], 1884. 8vo, pp. 3, [1]; self wrappers; fine. Last page provides list of the economic papers published by Baird; this pamphlet a reprint of a letter written to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 1884. Scarce, only one copy in OCLC, at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia. More

n.p. Cast by Randolph Bertin at the foundry of Bradley Hutcinson, [ca. 1990]. Bifolium, 12mo; fine. A short, entertaining essay on the author's experience at "Monotype University" at the Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry. Not in OCLC. More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890. First edition, 8vo, pp. 400; ex-Minnesota Historical Society library with bookplate stamped withdrawn, small white adhesive label at bottom end of spine, all else very good in contemporary half black morocco and marbled boards, light wear to extremities. The first publication by the Swiss-born... More